Oliver Stone: wakeup cinema

Oliver Stone is a master of in-your-face movie making. In picture after picture - in what the director refers to as "wakeup cinema" - he takes on big, controversial topics and verges on filmic assault of the audience to drive home his point of view

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Beaver, Frank Eugene 1938- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Twayne u.a. 1994
Schriftenreihe:Twayne's filmmakers series
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Zusammenfassung:Oliver Stone is a master of in-your-face movie making. In picture after picture - in what the director refers to as "wakeup cinema" - he takes on big, controversial topics and verges on filmic assault of the audience to drive home his point of view
Stone's artistic warfare, evidenced in such widely seen films as Platoon and JFK, has brought him acclaim as one of the few commercially successful Hollywood directors unafraid to make bold, meaningful films and has brought him criticism as a self-anointed sayer of the truth on whatever subject his eye comes to rest
His provocative style has triggered an enormous critical response, with interviews, reviews, and commentaries numbering in the thousands - remarkable especially for a filmmaker whose first noteworthy film, Salvador, opened in 1986. In this thoroughgoing assessment of Stone's life and work, Frank Beaver not only uses the rich response to the films to inform his own analysis but makes the case that the director has used it as well
Beschreibung:Bibliogr. S. 200-234. - Filmogr. S. 235-238
Beschreibung:XVI, 243 S. Ill.
ISBN:0805793267
0805793321

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